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But let's get serious for a second here, focus on the non-Archer opposition that will have to carry Archer's ass.

Lilith - Unfortunately squishy. The issue is that Nier can easily prep Dark Wall at the first side of Sion being assaulted. Add in the fact that Wily's Time Slow is a thing so that Nier can both charge faster and react easier to any oncoming projectiles, and she's essentially gonna take her own blasts.

Sub-Zero - I have no doubt he loses 1 Vs 1 to anyone who doesn't have the last name 'man' on my squad. He contributes in his entire moveset what Wily contributes in a single attack.

Cloud - By far the best equipped to tango with my squad due to rushdown. Hindered due to flying in Air Man-force winds, which may I remind contain spread fire tornadoes. Essentially, his foreward momentum is shot by Air Man and Wily being the Slow Patrol.

The team of Robot Masters and Wily exists to augment the relative slowness of the heavy hitters so that they land their strikes against this dodgier team. Their momentum is cut, they have to constantly check their footing on this terrain to a fall that WILL kill at least Lilith and Subby (and take Cloud out), and they have to kill the X-Death Ice Sculpture before anything. By that time, Sion will DEFINITELY be in view, and the odds of the team going "hey let's hide in this building where he can definitely assault us" is more than certainly next to nill. Avalanches happening with Diablo's roars and Sion's... Sion are almost guaranteed. The mako reactor is a giant coffin to pin down Team Archer, with Diablo and Alucard very easily able to take another front and kill and maim the squishies focused on the giant zombie who's reflecting and has giant magic hands and spears that can pierce damn near anything. Hell, Nier bats around a guy near Sion's size (see vids for reference), can easily toss the big boy over, butt smash, Mako reactor dead. And then Diablo shows up and starts Sataning hard.
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